A Blog Named Hero is celebrating five amazing years of inspiration and we are so excited to announce a special blog hop. We have invited all of our current and past Design Team members, special guests, and the amazing and generous companies that have collaborated with us over the years to celebrate with us. Speaking of those companies, here’s a graphic showing all of their logos. It makes our little crafty hearts go pitter patter to see all of them together.

This crafting community is so wonderfully generous and kind, and that’s what this blog hop is celebrating. Two friends with a love of Hero Arts got together and created a challenge blog that has grown into A Blog Named Hero today. Here’s the story of this blog came to be:

One day Mary Dawn Quirindongo and Linda Trace had been talking about how much they love Hero Arts products and one or another of them (Linda will say it was her, but Mary Dawn will disagree) said, “Why hasn’t anyone ever done a challenge blog for Hero Arts products?!”

After a few moments of stunned silence between them, as the possibilities unravelled in their minds, they both said “Let’s do it!” After a little research into the Hero Arts company and where the name came from, A Blog Named Hero was born.

In 2014 Mary Dawn stepped down to concentrate on her family and Lisa Stein came on board to help Linda with the blog. Fast forward three years and Linda steps down to spend more time with her family and Jessica Frost-Ballas now runs the blog with Lisa. It is an honor for us, Jess & Lisa to have stepped into Mary Dawn and Linda’s shoes. And we hope we continue to provide inspiration to you for years to come.

Just in case you’re new to A Blog Named Hero, we are a challenge blog with a monthly challenge featuring Hero Arts products and a collaboration company. We love how easy it is to mix and match other company’s products with Hero Arts. Each month our collaboration company offers a prize for one of our challenge entries. We’d love for you to join along.

Now, let’s have some fun! Here’s how this hop is going to work. Today and tomorrow we will be hopping, with different participants on each day. Several companies decided to help us celebrate our fifth anniversary with giveaways and they were so generous that we decided to spread the love over both hop days with different prizes to be won each day! Giveaway prizes total more than $500! To win, leave a comment on each hop stop. We will select winners randomly from different blogs so the more blogs you visit each day, the greater your chances of winning!

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary. Thanks so much for the wonderful chances to win some amazing goodies.I. Have my coffee on hand and now will be hopping my way through all the amazing blogs.
Love your products by the way. 🙂

Congratulations to “A Blog named Hero” on your 5th Anniversary. I’m looking forward to many more years. Thanks for the hop by so many great artists as well as the chance to win form so many great contributors.

I have been stamping since the mid 1990’s and have always loved Hero Arts. This blog is a fabulous idea and I love the idea of collaboration between companies because its a win/win for us stampers. Congrats on 5 great years!!! Looking forward to many more.

Congratulations on 5 wonderful years!! Looking forward to some great inspiration in this hop? I love how the cardmaking/crafting companies and people are such a community and gladly support and encourage one another. That in and of itself is inspiring!! Thanks to those who organized, participated in, and provided prizes for this hop!!

This is amazing. Better yet, I didn’t know about the challenge blog (where have I been?!!). But now that I get the monthly hero arts kits, maybe I can join in on the challenges. I look forward to it! Happy 5 years!

Just an FYI I had trouble leaving a comment on Bhavana’s blog, I think it might be Type pad doesn’t like my tablet, and Michelle Liimatainen blog as well I couldn’t find anywhere to leave a comment or that anyone had commented at all. It showed ‘0 comments’ both had beautiful cards and I love how Michelle used the distress oxides. I so can’t wait to get my hands on them 🙂

wow! Congrats! Thank you for this fun, inspirational blog hop. So many fun cards, artists and wonderful sponsors! I wasn’t able to comment on the fun Kristina Beagle’s post tho, just couldn’t figure it out. What a great way to start off my weekend! 🙂

Been a follower for years, though I don’t participate I love to see those who do! I love that so many companies and bloggers came out to support your anniversary! Keeping up something like this takes a lot of work, and this goes to show how much all that work is appreciated!!! Great job ladies!

Enjoyed the hop. Congrats on Anniv. Wonderful creations. Could not comment on Michelle L. blog. :Saw that it indicated 0 Comments but did not find a place to click at top or bottom.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”

Happy anniversary! Great blog hop. Loved seeing some of the old classics and some newer products. I couldn’t seem to leave a comment on Michelle Liimatainen’s blog. I couldn’t see a comment button anywhere. I just wanted to say that I wish some of your stamps weren’t retired. There are a couple I would like to buy; specially when I see them brought back to life.

I love blog hops like yours because you get to see the work of so many talented artists, find out about so many other companies you didn’t know before the hop, and learn so many new and creative techniques to try out. Thank you for such a great blog hop. Happy Anniversary!

Congratulations on your 5th Anniversary! Thank you for the Blog Hop. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the wonderful cards that were posted, and I’ve come away with motivation to use some of my own stamps and to search out a few that I wish I had.

Happy anniversary! I love hearing the story of how your blog came to be. I am new to this blog – can’t believe I haven’t been here before! It has been a while since I “hopped”. Can’t wait to visit all of these lovely blogs!

Congratulations! I have loved Hero Arts from the beginning when I started stamping 20 years ago. I love when stamp companies play well together. There is so much love to go around! Congrats on 5 years of blogging

Happy 5th! I’m happy to know about your blog now. I didn’t know there was a challenge blog for HA products. I love their stamps, but their ink pads are the best dye inks I’ve worked with. Thanks for the opportunit!

Amazing blog hop!!! I had so
much fun going through and stopping by everyone’s blog and seeing their gorgeous work! And wow at the talent!!! So much inspiration and amazing talent. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win some amazing prizes! And most importantly, Congratulations on celebrating 5 awesome years!!!!! I hope you continue to have many more amazing years ahead of success and good things!
I host “always anything goes” challenges every Friday with lots of prizes and companies sponsoring me. Would love for you to join us and check us out!
Hugs,
Jo
Jo’s Scrap Shack

Wow! I just finished hopping along and I am in total awe over the beautiful cards created by all of the fabulous designers! I love knowing that I am not the only one who absolutely adores Hero Arts! They have so many different products that make creating so much easier and more fun! So glad to be a part of this community! TFS!

Happy anniversary!!! I love to see successful creative crafters like you. I’m looking forward to the next inspiration from you. I wish you more success in the years to come. Thank you for being here. 🙂

Thanks for the fun blog hops!!! Congratulations!!! So many wonderful artist sharing their talent, designs, and techniques. Love your card, the design, background and colors are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Happy Anniversary. Thanks for having this giveaway. I never win but maybe someday. I can always hope. Anyway I get inspired by visiting all the designers blogs and seeing the wonderful things they have done.